A sign at Chatham Lighthouse Beach beach warns of dangerous currents and sharks in Chatham, Mass. Additional Cape Cod towns have installed the signs this year. Officials and researchers from Cape Cod to the Carolinas are looking at responses ranging from the high-tech to the decidedly low-tech as they deal with a growing great white shark population. [Philip Marcelo | Associated Press]

VA BETTER AT TREATING PTSD

A recent study in a journal produced by the American Psychiatric Association found that the VA is up to 30 percent better at providing medication to veteran patients than the private sector is for its patients. That was largely due to the VA's ability to provide a one-stop shop for timely medication to patients with appropriate follow-up care, like therapy and blood-level checks to ensure proper medication dosages.

HONORING THOSE WHO SACRIFICED ALL

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Christian Jacobs, 5, of Hertford, N.C., dressed as a Marine, pauses at his father's gravestone on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday. Christian's father Marine Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs died in a training accident in 2011.

Today, Memorial Day, we remember and honor all the service men and women who died in service of their country. View our All Eyes photo gallery.

• Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the remains of those military personnel killed at the Pentagon and nearly 7,000 killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the globe have arrived at Dover Air Force Base, Del., to be identified and turned over to their families. John Harper talks about the high toll that work takes on those who serve there.

CAN DEEP GULF BE RESTORED?

Far offshore and a mile deep in the dark world below the Gulf of Mexico's gleaming surface, the catastrophic BP oil spill of 2010 did untold damage on the ocean floor. But scientists are unsure they can do much to heal places in the deep that were hurt the most as they undertake what's being called the largest ecosystem restoration effort ever.

LOOKING AT ACHIEVA

TASTY TIPS AND A REVIEW

Recently one of food editor Michelle Stark's colleagues turned to her and asked if she had heard about the new trends involving chickpea water. "You mean, besides letting it seep out the bottom of my mesh strainer when I rinse off canned chickpeas? Clearly, I wasn't in the know," Michelle writes.

• You might also want to try amping up your drinks without amping up the alcohol content this summer with these five ideas for "mocktails."

OUTRAGE OVER GORILLA'S DEATH

Social media lit up with arguments over whether staff at the Cincinnati Zoo was justified in shooting and killing a 400-pound-plus gorilla that was looming over a 4-year-old boy who had fallen into a shallow moat. Critics and animal rights activists fumed with questions about why the gorilla could not have been tranquilized instead of shot dead, while others took to Twitter to mock the outrage.

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